Overall, was high school a good or bad time for you?

[bif]

My high school was very cliquey. There were the freaks and the jocks. Then there were the outsiders like me. Although I made some good, lifelong friends, high school was a hard time for me.

[Swede]

1. It was the best of times,it was the worst of times.

I wouldn't want to go through it again.

[BarenakedLady]

2. Forgettable

I have one friend I kept.

[KitchenWitch]

3. My high school years almost killed me

Depression + substance abuse issues + being a constant target of all the bullies = suicidal ideation.

I quit high school before I killed myself.

[Chovexani]

43. Take out the substance abuse part

And that was what I went through. :hug:

Dropping out saved my life.

[KitchenWitch]

49. ...

:hug:

I am always in awe of how much you and I have in common!

:hi:

[Guava Jelly]

4. It was OK.

I was very skinny and couldn't get laid to save my ass.
At least I was a nerd though..:woohoo:

[La Lioness Priyanka]

5. great time

[Midlodemocrat]

6. Good, actually great.

I moved between cliques pretty easily. My first serious boyfriend was a total gearhead, and I played drums in the band. :rofl:

Kept some friends, especially the ones that I was really tight with my senior year. They came to our hometown when both my mom and dad died.

[Lady Effingbroke]

7. More bad than good.

My 20th reonion is next month, but I'm not going to celebrate an accident of geography that forced me to coexist with those particular small-minded azzholes for 4 years.

[flvegan]

8. At the time, pretty good.

I'd never want to do it again, looking back. By the time I was 30, I don't think I had contact with a single person from that part of my life.

[Shell Beau]

9. High school was a blast for me.

I went to a very small school. We had about 40 people in our class and pretty much everyone was friends. I met my husband in high school when I was 15. We started dating and the rest is history. I am still best friends with my high school best friends. I have nothing but fun memories. The same goes for college. The memories are just a little blurrier! :P

[Tommy_Carcetti]

10. Mixed.

My first two years (at a private school) stunk to high heavens.

Then I went back to public school in my junior year, and it rocked.

Senior year I just wanted to graduate and go to college so it was something of a wash.

[Fox Mulder]

11. I'm not in contact with anyone I went to high school with.

And I thank the gods every day for that. :)

[Symarip]

12. I think of it like I do bootcamp

There are some pretty memorable moments, but by and large, I'm glad it's over.

I don't really keep in touch with anyone from highschool. Don't really know why. I just don't.

[dembotoz]

13. awful

[skooooo]

14. transferred my junior year

it sucked!

[hobbit709]

15. Sucked

I was bored stiff in class-which got me into trouble. By the third week of school I had read all the textbooks and was waiting for everyone else to catch up. Was an outsider for that and other reasons so I only had about half a dozen friends. The system didn't appreciate the fact that I was smarter than 99% of the people in the school, including teachers and administrators. I'm not bragging but all the idiot tests they ran on me said I was in the top 1% or so. I learned quickly not to be a pink monkey in a cage of brown monkeys.

[Lyric]

16. It was torture.

I was the Poor Kid who couldn't afford "cool" clothes, the Smart Kid that the wealthy, privileged kids resented the hell out of being outdone by, and the Fat Girl who wasn't REALLY all that fat, but didn't realize it at the time.

I had no self-esteem left at all by the time my folks split up and we moved to Virginia. School down there was better, but not great. I was in high school by then--10th grade. Nobody cared how poor my family was, because in that part of rural Virginia, almost EVERYBODY was poor. I had stopped caring about my weight at that point, and nobody else seemed to care either. And being the Smart Kid didn't matter, because the most common life ambition of my high school class was to get married, run a farm, and generally live a life utterly detached from academia. Therefore, nobody resented me because I didn't have anything that they particularly *wanted*.

But I also didn't have many friends. I was no longer capable of trusting kids my own age at that point; the emotional damage was already done. I made friends with teachers, counselors, and other adults. Then my Mom had a heart attack when I was in 11th grade, I dropped out of school to get a full-time job to replace her lost income, and took on the role of provider and caregiver for a few years. Life just kinda went downhill from there, until recently. I got my GED last year, and started college (albeit ten years late.) Now I'm on the President's list, winning awards for my writing, and being published in textbooks.

It's insane how life can turn around. We're still poor, but not for too much longer. My writing and ThinkBlue's pwnsome political skills are going to make us comfortable in the future. I have hope...

:hug:

[Lady Effingbroke]

69. I'm so glad that things are looking up for you!

:hug:

[MrsBrady]

17. it was 60/40 for me

60/40 good/bad


i keep in touch with absolutely no one from high school.

Just one person every once in a while with an email, but she was a neighbor and knew her from 2nd grade.

[Burma Jones]

18. Some Good, Some Bad

My folks were divorcing and basically stopped raising my brothers and I, so, I could do whatever the hell I wanted, which was great fun but also very bad for preparing for adulthood......

[Inchworm]

19. I don't remember...

...hic!

Pass that!

:smoke:

[Rambis]

20. Great

18
worked out 3 1/2 hours a day 6 days a week and enjoyed it-
no worries about food or weight
I had hair
I got along with everyone
If I wanted to have sex for hours it was possible:( And I was asked to have sex point blank
fuckin brilliant!

[MrCoffee]

21. It was fun at the time

I haven't spoken to anyone I went to HS with in about 5 years, but it was fun.

[montanto]

22. I was high. I don't remember. It must have been good.

[LanternWaste]

23. Pretty fun stuff...

Pretty fun stuff...

Drum Major in the marching band, dated only those I wanted to, skated by w/ a B average w/o studying. Seemed everything I wanted, I barely had to work to get (which turned into a major shock in later years...).

All in all, it's a time a fond memories for me. The few jerks who made my life hell were dealt with in an appropriate manner and to my satisfaction, and my four best friends from that bygone era over twenty years ago are *still* my four best friends. :)

[terrya]

24. It was the 7th Circle of Hell

They were 4 of the worst years of my life.

During my time in high school, I was realizing I was different because I was attracted to guys. I didn't have anyone to discuss this with because it was the early 1970's and there was no one I felt safe in talking to. Plus, I wasn't a jock (I was horrible at sports), I wasn't popular and I didn't have any friends.

All I wanted from high school was for it to be over.

[Auggie]

47. Took the words out of my mouth.

Graduating class of 113 in a tiny hick town in a tiny hick county in a mostly hick state. If you weren't a jock there was no place else to go. I swear, even the teachers looked down at you.

College was Nirvana. I was so happy there.

[CrownPrinceBandar]

25. Meh...........

I ran >>>-XC->, but I also played D&D and read sci-fi. I was sort of in a band, but no one would listen to us play. I was fairly cute, but was socially awkward (future Freak) and had no car. I hated it at the time, but looking back, it was a breeze!

[LeftinOH]

26. Like having chicken pox.. not the worst thing ever, but very uncomfortable-

and, just like chicken pox - once its over you never have to deal with it again.

[AlCzervik]

27. that time period for me was not good, the high school part was ok but everything else was bad.

my 2 best friends from high school are actually still my best friends, we all met in jr. high.

[HughBeaumont]

28. Shit on a stick.

Growing up in an all-white town of mean shits, snot bitches (and I'm talking just about every damned one), assholes, coke-huffing stoners (these weren't your pot-garden variety, these people sucked), bullies, dickheads, bad teachers, worse adults . . . what a fucking nightmare. Makes my blood boil just thinking about it. June 7th, 1987 was the happiest day of my life at that point.

To this day, when I see some asshole I graduated with and they're slobby, out of shape and miserable looking, I smile ear to ear.

[Alexander]

29. Horrible. I got my GED senior year because I was sick of it.

I hated the cliques, the clueless teachers, the busy work, most of the kids and the nonsensical rules they always came up with. Also the administration seemed to want to punish my grade more than others.

When I was a freshman, I learned that juniors and seniors could roam the halls aimlessly during study periods.

When I became a junior, they changed the rules that year so that you needed to have a hall pass.

It was a small town where even the teachers once went to school, and it seemed like nobody ever moved out of the 1980s. Very conservative, and the kids who didn't conform were usually pretty lame as well.

I still talk to maybe 5 of my closest friends there. If I'm ridiculously wealthy I might go to a reunion just to rub it in everyone's face.

[Mad_Dem_X]

30. Mostly bad.

Not as bad as Junior High (that was a slice of Hell on Earth, right there), but still pretty yucky.

[old mark]

31. Terrible. Great preparation for life.

Had in and out groups, jocks, politicals (school suck-up politics), greasers/car nuts (me), some pretty odd groups that never seemed to mix at all. Over 400 in my graduating class (1965) boomers all.

Don't know anyone from my graduating class at this time, don't live in the same area.

mark

[ceile]

32. I liked high school for the most part.

Had lots of friends. Still close w/ several of them.

[Celeborn Skywalker]

33. It was alright.

Not many terrible memories, not many great memories. Kind of so-so I guess.

[nomorenomore08]

34. Meh... it wasn't bad. Then again, I went to a small, fairly liberal Catholic school.

My public-school friends always talked shit about my school, but considering the type of kid I was, the bullying probably would've been a lot worse if I'd gone to theirs. No really traumatic memories, just your garden-variety disappointments and embarrassments, and a total lack of success with the opposite sex (which has sadly continued into my 20's :( ).

What's really funny is that I had a reputation among my classmates as being this crazy party animal, which was greatly exaggerated in part because they were such squares. Sure, I drank a decent amount, smoked pot from time to time, but no more than most of the guys I hung out with, and less than some of them.

Honestly, I think in some ways I was happier then than now, at 23...

[sniffa]

35. It sucked

Total culture shock for me - nothing but preppy white kids with fashion tastes several years past the expiration date. By day 2, I was wearing boat shoes, no socks, and pegging my pants (which I stopped doing a year+ prior as it was no longer in style).

[SarahB]

37. That was how it was when I moved to CT.

The people at my little prep school in Omaha had better fucking music and fashion taste than the idiots I went to high school with. I had some fun times, but mostly, the people when losers (think: guys who drove Irocs, gold chains, and too much cologne, girls who were Poison fans). I had my little niche, but between the idiots and my fucked up parents, I was happy when it was done.

[sniffa]

38. I went from a city public school

to a Catholic school. Most of my classmates were decent enough to call me whigger, but some openly called me the n-bomb while passing in the hallway. I had trouble transitioning from PE, BDP and Special Ed to Guns N' Roses and Poison. xP

[trackfan]

36. Good

[TheCentepedeShoes]

39. A mixture

The "school" part was pretty much ok. I got along fine, no problems with the teachers, made above average grades. But I didn't have any real friends, just "good acquaintances," people to hang out with before class, eat lunch with or walk home. I didn't know anyone very well, didn't visit their homes and meet their parents or have them over to my house. Mommie Dearest was (is) a very self centered person and didn't encourage "outside interference" like phone calls, visitors or going out. If it didn't include her it wasn't important or didn't happen.
I went to our 40th reunion a couple of years ago and realized that I went to HS with some really neat, funny, talented folks.
And intelligent, too, as long as they didn't vote for Boooosh...:P

[TrogL]

40. It's good I haven't met any of them again

...'cause I'd probably kill them.

I heard one had moved to town and tried to track him down. Probably a good idea I couldn't find him.

[edbermac]

41. Sucked.

Alcoholic parents divorced about that time, so it was pretty bad all over.

[femmocrat]

42. I loved high school. College, not so much. nt

[applegrove]

44. Bad. I went through none of the growth I should have. It wasn't a time

when I found out about myself. What a waste it was.

[Wcross]

45. I didn't enjoy it.

I was an "outsider freak", I have no need to ever go to a reunion.

[BreweryYardRat]

46. Horrible.

No further details.

[KG]

48. totally sucked untill the last 6 month - got car, got girlfreind and the party was ON!

:bounce:

[Faygo Kid]

50. High school sucked. Things outside high school didn't suck, but couldn't wait to get to college.

It was like a million times better than the narrow, provincial world of ignorance. College was like a flower opening. The "in crowd" didn't exist there.

High school had its moments, but overall, it was just about the most controlling, narrow minded, conformist experience of my life.

Now, I'm old and curmudgeonly, and glad of it.

[bigwillq]

51. It was great.

I had so much fun. My school was small..my graduating class was about 120 or so; there was probably 700 kids in the whole school.. I went all through school with most of the kids in my class so I knew almost everyone in my class.

I had fun. Good times. It was what you made of it.

[MikeH]

52. I had a rough time in high school

Many of the classes I had were quite interesting, and I did well in them. I was particularly good in mathematics and in the physical sciences such as chemistry and physics. In fact I, and one of my classmates, were known for being the math brains at my school.

However I had a very hard time socially. I was one of those who was picked on a lot by those who were inclined to do so. Being a math brain certainly didn't help. I was also very unathletic. Gym classes were miserable for me, particularly team sports.

Also I have to admit that I was immature socially, and especially in the years before high school I got upset at some of the dumbest things people said and did to tease me. So I was known as someone who would easily get mad or upset.

Most of the people were much better in high school than in junior high, but there still was a hard core of people who still delighted in harassing me.

One of the effects of this was that I came to have very low self-esteem, and mostly missed out on having a social life in high school. I was not able to have normal social interactions even with people who were not among those who harassed me.

In particular I was not able to relate to girls when I was in high school (I am a heterosexual male). In fact I missed out on getting to know a girl in the class year ahead of me who had been in one of my math classes and seemed to have a crush on me.

Things were much better for me in college than in high school. However I still had much baggage from high school, and had moved from Illinois to California two years after I graduated from high school. That being the case I would have much unfinished business for many years.

I have since gone to some high school reunions, starting with my 20th in 1988, and including my 25th and 30th. Those have been very positive experiences for me. I was able to interact socially and confidently with my classmates in a way I was not able to when I was in high school. And I did not have any problems with any of the people who had been problems for me in high school.

Very importantly, I was able to see the girl in the class year ahead of me who had a crush on me when I went back in 1988. She was married, and loved her husband, so no sparks flew between me and her. However it helped very much to be able to achieve some necessary closure.

My class would be having their 40 year reunion this year; however I have not heard anything from them about it, and do on see anything on their web site about a reunion this year.

[harmonicon]

53. basically the same for me, except that I thought it was awesome.

I owned the world and really thought anything was possible. God, it was great.

[DarkTirade]

54. I was never popular, but I never wanted to be.

I hung out with the geeks. However I was the only one of the geeks who actually dated. :P

[grace0418]

55. Bad. Very bad. Couldn't wait to get out.

I do miss one person from high school, but other than that I have no interest in ever revisiting it. College, on the other had, was fantastic. I met my husband there, made tons of lifelong friends, and generally had an amazing four years. Even though I was flat broke and had to work all the time to pay my way, it still was such a life-changing experience for me to find people who understood me, who accepted me, who challenged me, and who made me laugh my ass off. High school was such a wasteland of small-town, small-minded people.

[ghostsofgiants]

56. It was pretty decent.

Did lots of skateboarding and had some good times. School itself was lame, of course, plus my love life was lacklustre at best then, but whatever. Good times nevertheless.

[Bluzmann57]

57. Cliquey as hell

It was more or less the rich kids vs. the rest of us. We always prevailed in athletics and real life situations. See, we knew what was happening. Also, the rich kids liked our drugs and we liked their money. But if agent Mike reads this, it never happened. Personally, I "majored" in getting laid and loaded. I was pretty good at both. HS was in the distant past though, and I'm glad it's over. PVHS Class of 1975.

[bikebloke]

58. Not good; not bad.

I was pretty much wallpaper, and mixed with the various cliques. Home life was worse, so perhaps a smoke screen was provided. Though a few years back, my high school had its 50th anniversary with an open house. I wasn't doing anything, so I stopped by. The first time in 30 years since I stepped foot in that place. It didn't feel right, so I didn't stay long. So perhaps high school wasn't so great for me after all. :shrug:

[dysfunctional press]

59. well, my given nickname was "ugly"...

take a wild guess.

[yellowdogintexas]

60. totally depended on the events of that particular day, actually.

I had a lot of friends, but wasn't really part of one of the serious cliques, but got along with most of them OK. There were a couple of girls I just could not stand so breaking into their clique wasn't appealing. I had fun, I made good grades, I never had a boyfriend or dated much ..however am still close friends to one guy that I dated a few times our senior year.

[DeepBlueC]

61. great, a big huge relief

I didn't have to sit in the same room, resenting the same teacher all day any more. A few minutes of glorious freedom to talk, laugh, walk between classes, meet up with a boyfriend possibly, or other friends and co-conspirators. Different teachers, some of them actually likable, even admirable, and even the least liked only had to be tolerated for less than an hour a day. On that basis alone, I fucking loved high school. The more freedom I got in school, the more successful I became.

[Akoto]

62. Horrific. I dropped out to save myself.

Still dealing with the repercussions of that time in my life today, to some extent. Did get my GED, though. :)

[Skittles]

67. good for you Akoto on that GED

:thumbsup:

[Sultana]

63. It sucked for me

Depression + boredom not a good mix...

[Arugula Latte]

64. Four longest years of my life in a very snotty place. I gots me a gud edukashun, tho.

:P

[The Velveteen Ocelot]

65. Nightmarish.

[Skittles]

66. I went to high schools in England, Iowa and Illinois

those same stupid cliques were everywhere. I did just fine as an outsider - yes INDEED. It drives the clicque folk nuts when they cannot categorize ya. :D

[ChazII]

68. Pretty good over all.

[elshiva]

70. Fuck high school and middle school, too.

The schools I went to were fucking bully factories. Mills of homophobia and shame. It was fucking hell.

[carlyhippy]

71. I hated high school

Everyone had such an attitude, I ended up with the party crowd, which was o.k. I guess, they were a whole lot nicer than the jock/popular crowd.

[bixente]

72. Left after a few months lol

The best thing that happened was taking home some cookies from cooking class.

A variety of anxiety disorders were to come.

[MilesColtrane]

73. Not good.

Mind numbing, soul killing classes, (most subjects that had the potential to be interesting were taught by assistant football coaches) relentless bullying, (still have a broken nose) , and the girl I had loved for years returned from a fundamentalist retreat where she was brainwashed to never speak to me again...

At least I learned how to hold my liquor back then.

[Fire Walk With Me]

74. Bad, with a few genuine exceptions.

[OmahaBlueDog]

75. You tell me.

I met Mrs. OBD, fell instantly in love with Mrs. OBD, acted like a jerk and got rejected by Mrs. OBD, bought a lot of beer for friends because I looked old for my age, drank a lot, wrecked a car, had some laughs, watched some good friends destroy their lives, drank a lot, got made fun of a lot, got turned down for a lot of dates, had some disasterous dating experiences, started dating Mrs. OBD again, fell in love again, went to prom with Mrs. OBD, and proposed on my way to the other side of the continent, where I was attending college.

[Lethe]

76. it was BAD!

my high school was very bad.

[SeattleGirl]

77. Mostly bad, until my senior year.

Sophomore and junior years, I could totally sweep under the rug.

[Common Sense Party]

78. It was fine. I actually think being an outsider--a non-cliquer--helped.

I started out as a stoner, but didn't really want to be pegged with that label, and some of those guys were headed nowhere but down.

I had jock/popular friends, and nerd friends, and band and drama friends.

But in the end, it was pretty forgettable. High school means NOTHING in real life.

I still keep in touch with two of my very best friends from H.S., even 22 years later. The rest of em? Nah.